Mercor, an AI data startup founded by three college dropouts, reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in June 2025, doubling from $1 billion four months earlier. The company pays doctors, lawyers, an…
TIME completed a four-month migration from WordPress to Contentstack, unifying over 100 years of fragmented content data to support its AI search product and markdown pages for large language models. …
Phil Chen, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee now founding an AI startup, advises early-career professionals to focus on problem selection and resource allocation as AI automates well-define…
Screenshots from development versions of iRobot's Roomba J7 series, captured in 2020, were leaked online after being shared by gig workers in Venezuela who labeled the data for Scale AI. The images in…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family of models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—goes live for all API developers on July 9 after receiving US regulatory approval. OpenAI recommends most developers use Terra, the production wo…
VC Cafe's July 8, 2026 analysis argues that the next AI market layer will be a task economy built around expert judgment, workflow completion, and data labeling, with platforms like Mercor, Scale AI, …
Meta launched Muse Image, its first dedicated AI image-generation model, across Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app, built by its Superintelligence Labs division. The agentic tool works with the …
Meta released Muse Image on July 7, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang. The model integrates web searching and planning capabilities into Meta AI, …
Meta debuted Muse Spark, its first major AI model since restructuring its AI lab into Meta Superintelligence Labs, on April 8, 2026. The multimodal system offers tenfold compute efficiency gains over …
Amazon Web Services is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005 as the original 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence,' to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The ser…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to employees that the company's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, despite a $145 billion capital commitment and a restructuring that eliminated 10…
New AI coding benchmarks, including Snorkel AI's Senior SWE-Bench and Scale AI's SWE-Bench Pro, are replacing older evaluations like HumanEval and original SWE-bench to test senior-level engineering s…
The Center for AI Safety, with world experts, created Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), a benchmark of over 2,500 expert-level questions across disciplines to test AI reasoning. Even top models like GPT, Ge…
Uber Technologies dismissed two senior leaders in its AI data labeling division, Uber AI Solutions, according to a Bloomberg report. The unit, launched in November 2024, competes with Scale AI by leve…
Meta will reportedly launch a cloud computing business to sell excess AI computing capacity to third-party customers, diversifying revenue beyond advertising. The news sent Meta stock up over 7% as in…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that AI could create more jobs rather than eliminate them, if the focus is on enhancing individual productivity through 'personal super intelligence.' He critiques riva…
Amazon Robotics is close to signing a lease for 250,000 square feet at 650 Townsend Street in San Francisco's Design District, joining a growing hub of AI and tech firms. The Massachusetts-based divis…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed fears about AI-related job displacement, arguing that a focus on empowering individuals rather than automating knowledge work could lead to more jobs. He contrasted …
Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that began as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized revenue eight months after launching its paid evaluation service. The platfo…
Arena, the AI leaderboard platform that originated as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue just eight months after launching its commercial service. …